Recovering recording sessions from VS-840, VS-880, VS-890, VS-1680 backup CDs by using Reaper with it's VS plugin appears to be the best and easiest way to have your old sessions on your computer. The easy process is listed in this PDF at this address:

Frustration has led me to this. Roland caused this by not helping us convert these disc years ago.

Everything is explained; from the locations of the applications needed, the process in which to rip the B/U CDs and the process to import them into Reaper.

When the session opens in Reaper EVERYTHING is in proper time order and ALL track including sub-tracks are in the mix window. Best of all Reaper is ALMOST free. You are able to try it out for 30 days and for some that may be long enough to recover what they need. After that you need a license. You may find that you like this DAW as it is quite nice in comparison to Sonar, Pro Tools, Logic, and the many others I have used. It even has track folders! Pretty interesting.

I successfully ripped 56 VS backup CDs to separate folders and can now open them in Reaper as though I saved them there with Reaper to begin with. I hope this finally helps ex-VS users like myself recover their long lost sessions.

This is for us who spent many dollars with Roland over the years and have had sessions in-limbo for a DECADE!

Problem SOLVED!

Thanks to the creators of Cd2Roland ripper, Reaper and the Reaper VS plugin!

This all sounds wonderful, but I cannot get my pc to read any of my VS-880 cds. When I put them in the drive, they all just come up empty, I have a number of disks and they all load into the Roland just fine, but all my laptops just see them as blank. Is this normal, is there a step I am missing?